How an openly gay artist fiercely resisted the Nazis

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Willem Arondeus, photographed in his apartment, 1915 (Photo: courtesy U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum, Toni Boumans)

Willem Arondeus was an openly gay Dutch painter who fiercely resisted the Nazis in occupied Holland. Born in 1894, he died in 1943, at the age of 49.

Arondeus’s father kicked him out of the house when he was young for being gay…